Nobody got this reference yet???
“Instead of making a bunch of little pancakes, we’ll just make one big one and cut it in half.”
I seem to be Lactose Intolerant. Haven’t been diagnosed by a medical professional, but who really needs that?
Every now and again I get a little bottle of chocolate milk. I just can’t help myself. I pay for it, though, and quite dearly.*
I eat cheese all the time, however, so I guess it’s possible.
*I never remember to buy any remedies, such as Lact-Aid.
I LOVE milk, but for some reason I’m hypersensitive to differences in quality. I once got so sick I threw up from drinking milk that my mother thought smelled just a little bit off. And for some reason, most of the milk I get when I’m away from home in Wisconsin tastes just AWFUL to me, so I don’t even bother drinking it anymore when I’m not at home.
My boyfriend, who’s 1/4 Algonquin, is mildly lactose intolerant. He’s fine with cheese and ice cream, but he puts water on his cereal. WATER! Eugh.
I love the phrase “Lactose intolerant”, arr me hearties, aye I do.
I don’t know if all cultures went through a herding phase with bovines and ovines - how about those South American cultures with no domesticable draft animals? Did Mayans drink llama milk? But I do know that the normal course of life for a small human is to produce galactase in the intestinal mucosa for about the period of its life when it drinks milk from the mother’s breast, and then to lose that enzyme as it grows older and learns to live on grains and vegetables and occasional doses of fat and meat.
Some odd tribes that were highly dependent on their cattle (but couldn’t afford to slaughter them too often) developed a mutation to hang onto the galactase longer, making them able to drink milk later into their lives.
The Masai didn’t, and so they drink blood from their cattle instead.
Just because we Westerners write the textbooks, we have taken our abnormal condition, prolonged tolerance of milk products past the age of weaning, and called it normal. We have deemed the alternate condition, seen in just about every friggin’ person in Asia and most in Africa, as a disease, or at least a deficiency disorder.
Lactose intolerance.
Arr. Me hearties.
I have no cite for this, but did anyone else hear about the WWII supplies airlift to the Marshalls Islands that included hundreds of pounds of dried milk? People were using it to paint their houses.
[SmartAss]
Because when you pour beer on your Cheerios, people tend to look at you funny.
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Half and half! You skeevy peck-carcass! Gyarrrr!
Milk is tasty.
Arrrr, me scurvy whelk of an exhusband was a strict milk-is-evil guy. I didn’t eat ice cream for 5 years sniff it was horrible. He blamed all societies ills on ol’ Bessie, from ear wax to racial intolerance. Of course, I should mention he was clinically insane. When I moved out, my kindly girlfriend fed me pork chops and ice cream every night for two weeks…heaven.
The fact is I am violently lactose intolerant and never drink the stuff, except for the teaspoon of half and half I slip into my triple espresso ever morning, arrrr.
Because it tastes f***ing awesome, that’s why.
Coffee Milk!
Milk…mmmmmm…
After a nice, sweet, rich dessert, nothing, NOTHING, tastes better than a tall glass of ice cold milk. In fact, that’s the best part of eating said sweet, rich dessert, is it not?
And so what if a lot of people are lactose intolerant? I’m not-so why should I give up milk because other people can’t drink it? That’s just stupid.
Because it does a body good.
I’m lactose intolerant, but I loves me milk. It doesn’t make me sick unless I drink milk and eat yogurt or lasagna or something at the same time. Then again, I drink skim milk, so that may have something to do with it.
Cheese and yogurt sometimes make me sick, sometimes don’t–it really depends how much. Ice cream and hot chocolate always make me sick, but I love them anyway. Chocolate milk does if I drink more than a glass (or maybe two).
can someone define lactose intolerance? is drinking coffee or tea with milk subject to that as well?
From The New England Journal of Medicine:
I tolerate lactose well but I try to limit my consumption of dairy products because they tend to be very high in artery-clogging saturated fat.
I’m convinced the Olympian gods’ nectar and ambrosia were as nothing compared to a tall glass[which has resided in the freezer for 24 hours] of milk, and dare I say it, yes , I will, a big bowl of popcorn. I drank a lot of milk as a kid. Switched to low-test(skim) about 20 years ago, it’s OK for cereal and such. Every once in a great while I treat myself to a pint of the best stuff-full fat, 4%. What an orgy of tastes, textures and aromas compared to my usual. Eating ice cream or yogurt just doesn’t satisfy my milk jones. When ya’ gotta’ have it, nothing else will do. Three cheers for Bossy, Elsie and other cow-type names I can’t think of right now.
As a lacto-ovo vegetarian of two years, I’ve read alot of the milk-is-evil arguments. What I believe out of them is:
Its mean to most of the cows:
*near-constant udder infections and torn ligaments in the udder from massive amounts of milk - a result of both hundreds (thousands?) of years of selective breeding and more recent bovine growth homone injections
*pregnant every year
*life span of 2-3 years - this is an animal that, on smaller farms where they are well-treated, live 20-30 years.
*treatment of male calves mentioned earlier
Fat is an essential nutrient. Saturated fat, however, is bad for you - and is the only kind found in milk
Milk is not as good a source of nutrients as the dairy industry would have you think:
*While milk is an excellent source of complete protein,
*Protein prevents calcium absorbtion, so your body gets very little of the calcium found in milk. This is why WHO recommended calcium is 300 mg/day (non-dairy sources) and USDA recommended calcium is 1200 mg/day (mainly dairy sources)
*Calcium prevents iron absorbtion, so you get very little iron from milk also.
Above items, to me, indicate that milk isn’t bad for you (especially if you drink skim and avoid too much cheese and ice cream), but it’s not the nutritional heaven many people believe it is. Drink it if you like it, just don’t think it’s as good for you as fruits, veggies, and whole grains.
Did you know that women giving milk have either just or are about to have babies?
So do women. When both cows and women get too much pus in their milk they develop a rather painful condition known as mastitis. Both women and cows, upon contraction of this condition, are given gasp antibiotics. Well-cared for women and well-cared for cows do not contract this condition.
Did you know that centuries of breeding good, milk-producing cows has bred the brains right out of them, that a little 80 pound calf in the middle of a herd of 1500 pound cows is likely to get stomped on or eaten by something or lost or hurt, and that it’s a lot safer to isolate them from things that can hurt them? Or that calf hutches leave a small calf a good deal more room to roam than a dog has in its crate?
I hope she can remember. I’d really like to know what kind of injections are given to make a valuable product sick and, therefore, unsalable.
I have my own issues with factory farming, but crap like this is just crap.
Anyhow, we were talking about milk.
Any way, shape, or form. Raw, frozen, unpasturized, full of fat, half ‘n’ half, cured and formed into wheels, melted, half solid little chunks/half whey, I don’t care.
Except skim. That’s just nasty.
(Can you tell I was raised on a small dairy farm?)
Heh, funny that you should crack on skim, that’s all I can stand to drink, but drink it I do! Like I said, half-a-gallon a day sometimes.
And I’m not by any definition a health-nut. There’s just something about the texture of non-skim milk that grosses me out.
Eh, I was raised on whole, raw, unpasturized, unhomogonized milk sucked out of udders by evil milking machines just a couple of hours ago. It took me a long time to get used to 2%; 1% is pushing it. Skim is just opaque water. 
[Homer Simpson]Mmmm… Opaque water… graaaargaaghh[/Homer Simpson]
Eh… most healthy female animals that have an annual breeding season and get to mate end up pregnant, every year. That’s not the exception with dairy cows, except that in their case it is mandatory that they get their pregnant, otherwise they are slaughtered.
And a cow doesn’t start producing milk until she’s about 2-3 years old, so assuming she lasts through 3 lactation seasons, she’ll die when she’s 5-6. In cooler weather, it could be more than that.
And like I said before, dairy cows are given antibiotics to treat their mastitis. Not only that, but they’re given preventive treatment each time they’re milked and an extra one at the last milking.